THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
DNA MAKES RNA MAKES PROTEIN
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Decreases the amount of pesticide needed to grow corn
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Increases the length of time corn can be stored before it rots
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Increases the chance of adding a trait to corn that causes allergies
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Decreases the number of corn plants a farmer can grow in a season
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Detailed explanation-1: -Genetic engineering in corn allows genes from bacteria to be added to the genetic material of corn. In traditional breeding, genes of only closely related types of corn can be exchanged.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn is a GMO corn that produces proteins that are toxic to certain insect pests but not to humans, pets, livestock, or other animals. These are the same types of proteins that organic farmers use to control insect pests, and they do not harm beneficial insects, such as ladybugs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Today, a large portion of US corn and cotton acreage is planted with transgenic pest-protected plants (Economic Research Service 1999a, b; Carozzi and Koziel 1997). Those transgenic pest-protected plants contain genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).
Detailed explanation-4: -In the case of Bt corn, the donor organism is a naturally occurring soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis, and the gene of interest produces a protein that kills Lepidoptera larvae, in particular, European corn borer.